Writer Dominick Dunne and sometimes controversial - author biographies

Dominick (Nick) 29 Hartford Dunne was born in Connecticut in October 1925. He dragged a rich Irish Catholic family. Dominick was the second of six children. His mother was Dorothy Francis Dunne and his father was a surgeon and chief of staff of the hospital, Dr. Edwin Richard Dunne.

Dominick says he has always felt like a stranger in his own family. He was more interested in the arts and sheen of Hollywood, like in other sports, and more jobs for men. His father did notwas to understand and verbally and physically abusive Dominick.

Dominick joined the U.S. Army and fought in World War II, to bring home the Bronze Star for courage in action. He was only 19 when Dominick returned from the war he returned to school in Massachusetts, visit Williams College, where he graduated in 1949.

In 1954, Dominick met actor / heiress Elena Beatriz Griffin, called Lenny, and were married six weeks later. Had threeChildren, Griffin, Alessandro and Dominique. The children were raised and trained in wealth and privilege. Though Dominick and Lenny divorced in 1965, remained close.

In New York, 1957, Dominic began his career as a stage manager for the Howdy Doody television shows and other live performances. The Dunnes, he moved to Hollywood, where in 1957, Dominick was vice-president of a studio for several years. He continued to produce films on his own.

Dominick and Lenny met and mingledcelebrated with the hoi polo scene in Hollywood. The Dunne were good for throwing elaborate parties for the parties and are known to visit.

Finally, things hands with drugs and alcohol. In a long interview in 1999, Dominick's, said: "If I lost all my sin and my marriage, my home, my career, everything is gone, I'm 50 years old Hollywood, broke, drunk, drugged and went to a cabin in Oregon, my life back in order. "

TheResult of this self-imposed isolation a novel, "The winners" was. Dominick continues to write the rest of his life. Asked if the writing was easy to him, he said that the letter is not easy to get him, not call it a fight, either. He says it's important to write every day.

Dominick was an editor of Vanity Fair in 1984. One of his first tasks was to the trial of John Sweeney, the man who killed his only daughter, Dominique, the coverage yearbefore.

Dominique's mother, Lenny was to join the rights of victims 'and' the organization has started the "Justice for the victims of murder. Lenny was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1975 and died in 1997.

Dominick followed and wrote about many celebrities testing. Some of the celebrities is OJ Simpson and Menendez brothers trials. It was also the host and contributor to the truTV "power, privilege and justice." Dominick had no mercy for those who said, "had thejust best that money could buy. "
The Cambridge History of Law in the America ... "Dominick filled the niche with honors, a leading popular chronicler of the nation known criminal procedures and processes with celebrities."

Dominick Dunne bladder cancer died at his home in Manhattan August 26, 2009, aged 83. At that time he had working on his latest novel, "too much money."

Dominic Dunne Books

Novels:

Winners(1982)
Two Mrs. Grenville (1985)
People Like Us (1988)
1990, a woman uncomfortable (),
1993 A Season in Purgatory ()
Another city, not mine: a novel form of memory (1997)
Too much money in 2009 ()

Omnibus:

Dominic Dunne: three complete novels (1994)

Series: The Villas of Limbo (1991)

Non Fiction:

Fatal Charms and Other Tales of Today (1987)
The Way We Lived Then: Memories of a well-known name dropper(1999)
Justice: crimes, trials and punishment (2001)